BJw ®tojp" cmor,pN up through the golilru Thursd^^pn,j H In their daffodil !>ed, time, ere the daylight fades, ' °' * 'beam 'hat was long since InMrWd tajV wrltsr. MSJ\V of the s|>ring when first we met, Air.r i suns that forever havo sot? When tho world ia red with tho summer rose, And sweet with the music of mellow June, Will you miss some light when the sunset glows. Till the song of the summer seems scarce in tune; Will you say how swiftly tho June days went In tho fullness of last year's sweet content ? When tho reapers rest in tho ruddy gold Of tho ripening fields on tho breezy down, Will you think of die time when our tale was told, And our hopes were ripe for the reaping down, When the fields of life that flowered of late Wore stripped ami swept by the scythe of fate ? When the world is awaiting tho spring's sweet prime, And tho snow lies soft over forest and field, Will you think how wo wept in tho winter time, Kro the pain of our parting was numbed and healed; When tho "love of your lifetime" was just new-born, And your "life-long sorrow" wmi scarce out worn ? A lifelong sorrow! I mind me yet. When wo stood in the glow of the golden grain; •Twero lietter, yon said, that I should forgot, " For tho greater half of love is pain." Ah, troe! He who loves moat, tho most endures; But the "life-long sorrow" is mine not yours! lltirjh-r's Wrrkty. AUNT PEISCILLA'S GREEN SILK, "Anil to mv niece, Arabella Stewart, I give anil bequeath the green silk ilrcss which has boon in my possession for tho last five-and-twenty years." The old lawyer, who was reading the will of the late deceased to tho assem bled relatives, came to an abrupt pause, and glanced over his gold spectacles with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes. "Stingy old thing!" Miss Stewart's vinegary face took on a more acid expression than usunl; she drew herself up to a fearfully erect at titude, and glared around the room with a baffled fnry in her ferret-like eyes. "Stingy old thing," she reiterated, "to treat mo so—the best friend she ever had. I've waited on her day and night, toiled and slaved, and borne with her caprices. Every body knows she was rich, and yet she dies and leaves me nn provideil for—me, a poor and friendless orphan girl—and wills all her money to charitablo institutions. Then, not con tent with that, she adds Insult to injnry by bequeathing mo that old gToen silk ! Looks as if it had come ont of the ark." Miss Arabella, the " friendless orphan girl" of somo thirty-eight summers (and winters) dried her eyes—the tears had not been shed for the loss of her onlv relative, bnt for the loss of the fortune she had confidently ex jwo ted to inherit —and seizing the unoffending garment, would have tossed it upon tho fire whiea I blazed and sparkled in the grate. But a slim little figuro started for ward, and a pair of small hands caught tho antiquated green silk, while two pleading blue eyes were turned upon Miss Htewart. "Oh, please, Cousin Arabella," cried a sweet voice, half-choked by tears, " please don't destroy Aunt Priscilla's dress! It seems a sacrilege. She's dead anil gone, and we onght to treat ber property with respect. Besides, she left it to you, anil yon should—" She paused abruptly as Miss Arabel la's hand came down ujion her shoulder with a Arm grip. "Out of my sight 1" shrieked the irate spinster; "yon're always in the way where you've no business to be, Nellie Hunter. Hince yon think so much of the dress it's a pity she didn't will it to you instead of leaving you nothing. You were her niece just as much as I; yet sho forgot your very ex istence. IVrliaps you'd lietter take the dress—l'm sure I don't want it, and re fuse to claim it." Tho old lawyer, who hail witnessed the entire scene with interest, smiled slightly. " If Miss Nellie wishes the garment," he remarked, blandly, " I should advise her to take it." "Mho's welcome to it!" snapped Ara bella, savagely. NaUie took tho despised dress, and began folding it carefnlly. "I thank you, Consin Aralsdla!" she ventured, timidly. "Well, you needn't 1 I want no body's thanks I I've been living on thanks all my life, and now wonbl like somothing more taugible 1" Lawyer Wilder** dark eyes worn a slightly contemptuous look. "Miss Htewart," lie said, mildly, "I should think you would have somo re collection of isuit benefits. You havo lived with your aunt for ten years or more, and during that time the entire expense of your maintenance has lieen cheerfully borne by tho good old lad J. 11 And now that she has died, and left her 11 fortune elsewhere (being ber own she certainly httl a right to dispose of it EH she aw fit), yon indulgo in unseemly oxhihitionß of temper. If any ono has a right to oomplaiu, or fool slighted, I should think your Gnuain Nollio was tho ono, forsho IIOH boon literally forgotten in your aunt's will!" "And I might as well be!" snarled Arabella. " But Nollio can have that old dross, maybe it will Horvo lior as a wedding dross 1" And tho irato spinster dashed out of tho room with head oroct and eyoH flashing fire. Lawyer Wilder laid his hand on Nellio's brown head. "Don't mind hor, little ono I" ho cried, cheerfully, "and don't think your Aunt I'riaeilln forgot you ! Mho loved you dearly, and I'm stiro thoro is somo serious mistake in this will, for I have often heard her say that little Noll was provided for. Do not bo discouraged, my dear, now that you liavo no home. Come home with me, my wife will bo dolightcd, and—as for Harry —" The old man paused, anil shook hin gray head wisely. Nellie blushed "ce lestial rosy red." " Yon are very kind, indeed, Mr. Wil der," sho answered, "and God will re ward you for your goodness to a home less girl. I will accept your offer for a few days, and at tho er.d of that time 1 trust that I shall find employment." When Arabella discovered that the despised Nellie had actually been in vited to make Lawyer Wilder's house her homo her rage knew no bounds. "I nlways said yoti were a designing minx !" she cried, "and I know it now. You have got your eyes on Harrv Wil der. But let mo tell you something ho does not admire you, and never did. He told me, only the night before Aunt I'riscilla died, that there was no other woman in the world like nio, in his inti mation. What do you think of that, miss ?" Nellie's face was very pale, but she answered quietly, biting hor lip to re press its quivering: " Mr. Wilder has a right h> his own opinion, Cousin Arabella, and if he likes yon so much, I suppose there will lie but one termination, and—and—l con gratulate you." Arabella smiled and tossed her ring leted head. " Bah! All that is tra-sli, of course. Resigning with sweetness what you couldn't get. Make a virtue of neces sity and all that sort of thing. Well, when do you propose going to Mr. Wil der's ?" " This evening," rep ied Nellie, with dignity. "Since this house must j>a.vs into the hands of strangers, and the home where we have lived is now the property of others, I see no way bnt to leave at once. Where are you going, Arabella ?" " I suppose I can find a refuge with my brother's family hr a few days," sighed the maiden, dolorlmjy; "bnt I trust it will not have to I twin r long ! " And doubtless her brother's family shared the same feeling. % In an hour Nellie appeared, Grayed in a neat block suit, with her little traveling bag in her hand. "Going, eh?" sneered Arabella. "Well, it's the best thing you can do. I hope Yon'vo got that precious dress with yon." "Yes; I have it in my valise," answered Nellie, humbly. "Do you want it, Arnliella?" "No! Haven't I tohl you no? I want nothing belonging to that ungrateful old woman. Keep it for your own wedding dress.'* " Do so, Miss Nellie." Nellie glanced up. Harry Wilder was standing beside hei— tall, manly, handsome. Nellie's face grew red, and her eyes drooped beneath his keen gaze. " Yon are going to my father's house, I believe?" he went on, rapidly. " Well, father sent mo hero with the carriage to convey von home. Will you accompany me?" Anil right liefore the incensed Ara bella Nellie accepted tho proffered escort, and soon, seated in the comfort able carriage, they were driving down the wide country road, bound to Lawyer Wilder's handsome mansion. " Nellir Harry Wilder's hand was resting on hers, ami his fare hail somehow gotten into close proximity to the pretty one beside him. " Nellie, will yon be my wife 9" She started as with an electric shock " Why," she faltered, "I understood that—that —you did not like me—that— you cared for Araliella." He laughed merrily. " I was in the library where father had sent me for some papers," he ex claimed, " and overheard your entire conversation. Nellie, yon must know that tho idea ef my caring for that eross old maid is preposterous. Why, I have joved yon ever since I first met yon at yonr Aunt Priscilla's house and saw yon toiling away like a young slave, whilo jour Cousin Arabella sat in the parlor and played lady. Bnt answer me, dar ling—do you care for mo? Will yon bo my wife?" And Nellie did not say no. An hour or so later the 61d lawyer and bis rosy- cheeked wife wero giving the lovers their blessing in tho moot orthodox fashion. "Couldn't have pleased mo hotter, Harry," shouted tho old man—" not if you had married tho daughter of a mil lionaire I" "But, Mr. Wilder," faltered Nellie, "I am very poor, yon know, and per haps people will say—" " Hang people, my doar," blurted the warm-hearted old man, "what do we care for peoplo? It's only you and Harry, and tho good wife and mo; no one to bo consulted that I know of. Como now, my dear, name tho wedding day, and we'll have everything settled at once." Ninco there was no reasonable excuse for delay, Nellie appointed tho day, and soon dressmakers and sewing machines made music in the Wilder house pre paring for the auspicious occasion. One day Nellie marched triumpliantly into those wing-room, holding aloft Aunt Prim-ilia's old green silk. " My wedding dress 1" she cried. Mrs. Wilder glanced Up in consterna tion. " My dear," she began ; but Nellie cut the remonstrance short with a kiss. " Dear Mrs. Wilder," alio said, gently, "really, I prefer to be married in the dress. It can lo remade, and will look lovely. Nee ! it's real moire; and, as I am to be married here, in tho country, ean I not be allowed to dress according to mv own idea, ami not follow fashion ho strictly? Ib-member I am a jsior girl—" Sho paused in surprise. While she was speaking she held the dress, and her busy lingers hud detected some thing hidden away in tho lining. Paper a piece of paper. A pair of scissors soon laid the lining open, and Nellie drew it forth. This is what she saw written on tho paper, properly signed and witnessed: "I, Priseilla llurnhain, d<> give ami bequeath all the balance of my estate amounting to fifty thousand dollars to my nieces, Arabella Stewart ami Nellie Hunter, to bo dividod equally between them." And so it all turned out liko a story look. Arabella—to do her justice was overwhelmed by her aunt's kind ness, and heartily ashamed of her own gross errors. Sho became a wiser ami better woman. And as for Nellie, there never was a more deserving heiress, nor ever a sweeter bride than the one who stood at Henry \\ ilder's side one fair spring morning and was married in Aunt I'ris cilia's old green silk. A Night of Horror. Iklunrd Toth, the jmpular but very poor Hungarian lyric j>oet and drama tist, who died some weeks ago, has left an autobiographical account of the event which hastened his end. There seems to lie no doubt that the gifted young man had the germs of consumption al ready at work in him, but probably no consumptive patient ever took less pre caution against the advances of the de stroyer, while the last stage was pre maturely hurried on by the circum stance* which ho has described. In a light coat, with no companion but a walking stick, and with only five gulden in his pocket. he set off for a walk of ten miles across a mountain path to join n troop of players in a town which is simply indicated as " K." Ho was overtaken by a fearful and blinding snow-storm. About twelve at night he saw a light in a house, made his way to it and found that it was a miserable little inn of forbidding a*]>eet. He determined to seek night quarters there, having no other choice, as he thought, Wtween that and death. After he had been admitted by the evidently Jewish landlord he snw two peasants, of criminal looking aq>eot, drinking sml playing at cards. Toth ordered an omelette and half a bottle of red wine. Ho was so dis concerted by the evident character of his host and bis follow guests, that he thought it better to trust himself to the snow-storm for the remainder of the night than to such companions. He put down his five-gulden piece, at which the two i>easans glances], and received four gulden and 70 krenzer* in change. Warmed by the wine he started off with reinri go rated force. Ho had proceeded some distance, whon, to his " great g'od fortune," as he says, ho slipped and rolled down into a deep ditch. As he could not find his way hack to the road ho mode use of the ditch as a track. Tho snow had ceased and had not fallen so heavily on the downward route as on the ascent. Ins few r moments ho heard the voices of the two peasants whom ho had left in tho inn. "Ho mnst havo come this way," said one, " ho cannot escape ns." " Bah I" replied tho other, "It is not worth freezing all night to got fonr gul den and seventy krenxors. I shall go back." Toth says that ho kept himself qniet and motionless on the frozen gronnd for two or throe honrs before ho dared to again move. " Tbat night," he writes, "killed me, for since its hor rors I have scarcely passed an honr without incessant coughing."—Throe 1 llllotlM of Hull I Oil I.OOIiN All lu Onr ICoom Tutfcrd Alton! Ntid Wflghrd, t llnndrrd Tbouannd Hollars*' Worth nt a Tlmr. A recent issue of tho Now York Sun Haym It costs 81.2(H) to send 85,IKK),()(M) in bullion from tho Now York assay oillco to tho Philadelphia mint. That is why u room in tho assay oillco in at present walled around with gold bricks. The weight of $5,000,000 is eight tona and a quarter, or, inoro accurately, 1(5,585 pounds. Congress waa asked for 850,000 to cover the e*i>ense of trans porting bullion to tho mint, but it only appropriated 920,000. Between tho second of August last und May 1 $00,000,000 in gold was received in tho assay office, and for lack of money to send it to the mint 800, OIK) ,(KM) yet re mains on the hunds of Superintendent Thomas C. Acton. This £110,000,000 weighs about ninety-nine tons. A man who should own it would be able Vo wall himself up in it as in a well, ami the well would not be so wide or so high but that he could stand in tho middle and touch every brick. Tho num ber of gentlemen in this country who could perform this interesting experi ment with their own gold is small. 'The bricks in the assay office average about 81,0(H) apieco in value. Tin most of them are not much to look at. They are as black and dull in color as a cheap quality of stovepipe. If you scratch one with a knife, you make a bright yellow mark, and this mark will not get black a vain. These black bricks are composed of incited foreign coins, con taining about the right amount of alloy for American coinage, and so the alloy is allowed to remain in them. When tho melted gold is jsjured into the molds the oxygen of the uir attacks the copjsT of the alloy, and turns it bla< k. If it were worth while to protect the bricks from the air until they got cold they would never get any darker in color than a gold coin would. Two-thirds of all these bricks are mode of French twenty-franc pieces. Those bricks made of gold directly from the mines are very nearly pnro metal, and are as bright as coins. The drainage from all this gold, if it were put at interest at five per cent., would make a golden stream of £542 an hour running day and night. "I know just as well how much gold there is in this room," Superintendent Acton said, as he gazed aliout at the piled up wealth, "as I know my own age. but, notwithstanding that, it must all be weighed again in anticipation of the account to be rendered. If we had lia/1 money enough to send it to the Philadelphia mint, we would not have the great trouble of weighing it. Al>ont 81(H),000 of it only is put on the scales at a time." Six men were at work. I)own the faces of all but two of them the sweat rolled, and their hands w< r< grimy with black oxide of copper. They tugg'*l at tlx- gold liars like 'longshoremen un loading pig iron. A heavy platform truck on four small wheels was rolled into the room, and on this nlmtit twenty live bars or bricks, taken front the built up golden walls on three sides of the room, were laid. The truck was then drawn along the tloor by four men, two pulling and two pushing, into an adjoin ing room when- flu- scales w. re. The scales are at suit five feet high, ami tho index noodle in mom than four feet long. Tho Warn ami tho pans am suspended on stool edges a* aharp as knifo blade*, to avoid friction. When tho small weight* had boon added to tho largo onoa to balance tho gold, the point of tho long index noodle would tremble over the middle line of the ivory grad uated scale. This pair of scales is of a kind so delicate that when brought to a balance with two piecoa of paper of equal size in tho pans, tho mere writing of a name with a lead pencil on one of tho pieces of pa|>er will add enough weight to tho paj>er to turn the scale* in its favor. This has actually been done on one of the scales in tho assay room, but that pair is protected from air currents by a glass case. The men who handle the gold, though not different much in outward ap|ear aneo to the casual observer from coal heavers, are, in fact, men of intelligence, of approved reputation, and who re ceive good pay. " Wo would not have all this trouble," said tho chief weigher, as ho put a 500- ouneo weight gently on the scales with his right hand and wiped off his brow with bis left, " if we had arrived at tho ' parliament of man, the federation of the world.' What wo sigh for hero is an international system of coinage. Tho most of all this weight came to this country as good foreign coin, hut its lack of uniformity with our mintage compels the United Htates to recoin it, and mo to fight these weights all day." A larger supply of foreign coins than usual has come into the country since August last, because tho rate of ex change has lecn in our favor. It was explained that tho most of the gold other than foreign coin came to tho assay office by express from mines and from various business houses. It some times happened that a deposit of origi nal dual, in small flaky grains, was brought into the office by a bronxe faced minor in person, who had brought it Fast with him on a visit to his former home. The (/real Seal or the United Slates. Tho seal is circular and about two inches in diameter. The device for the great seal, as adopted bv act of the Continental Con gress on Juno 20, 1782, and r-adopted by the new Congress September 15, 178'.t, provided for an obverse and a re verse, but there is no evidence that the reverse was ever made. In the obverse as originally made the eagle holds in his sinister talon a bun dle of thirteen arrows, and the first seal was thus made; but when in 1811 a new seal was made to take tho place of the old one, winch had become worn, only fix arrows were put in the eagle's tal ons. No one knows whether this change was made by accident or design; there is no lnw authorizing it. The obverse, which is the same as the impression affixed to the commission described above, lias an eagle with a shield on its breast, arrows in tho left talon and an olive branch in the right. Above appears on a scroll in the beak of the eagle "F Pluribus Unum," be neath a halo encircling thirteen stars. The reverse (which, as mentioned above, in believed never to luive been finished) wax designed to have u pyr amid of bricks unfinished, and at its bate •' MDCCLXXVI." Above there in an eye in the apex of the pyramid, surroumb d by a halo. At tlii- ftp < f the neal i* engraved "Annint Cocptis" has fuw.r. d the under standing,") and at tin* lottom, "Norn- Ordo Beeloruin" ("A new series of meaning that a new order of things hud begun in thiaWestern world with the new^reptlblif. '.When the new nation was but a few hour* old a proposition was made in the Continental Congo *s to order a great seal for the republie. There was acorn tnittee of three appointed to coi. ider designs for one the very day tie Dccl.ir ation of ItidefM-ndenco was sign< d. The three were Dr. Franklin, John Adams and Thonas Jefferson. Many designs were submitted in the course of the next few years, one by Jefferson himself, but none proved satisfactory, and at last ihat now in use was accepted in 17*.;. Meantime Adams bad liccn sent to Kngland (in 177U) to negotiate for jcace, and while there Sir John l'rest wich, a baronet of the w-t of Kngland, who was friendly to the colonies, culti vated his acquaintance. This gentle man learning from Adams that no de sign for a coat of arms for the United Htat<-s had lecti adopted, suggested one which pleased Adams, who sent it to Philadelphia, ami after aeveral designs made on this side of the water were re jected, this one was submitted and finally accepted, lieing simpler in de sign thnn, as well as equally as signifi cant as. any of the others proposed. The Ile of Man. Little is definitely known about the early history of the Isle of Man. The people are of Celtic origin, the Manx language has strong affinities with the Irish and the Gaelic of the highlands. The island was long under the rule of the Karls of Derby, from whom it passed by succ< sion to the Dukes of Athole, and b was not till I>2'.' that the crowa ob t tained full possession of it, by the pur chase of the rights and privilege* of the latter family. It has never Wen repre sented in the imperial parliatm nt, but possesses an independent form of gov ernment, to which it adhetes with the utmost tenacity. The exeentive power lies in the governor, who is appointed by the crown. The parliament, or as it i is called, the Court of Tynwald, consists I of the governor and council, forming ; the up|>er, and the house of keys, form ing the lower house. In IHOO a reform lull was jtasscd,enfranchising the people who elect tho members of the bouse of keys, a general election taking place every seven years. Justice is admin i istored by two deemsters, or judges ap pointed by the crown, and by the high bailiffs of Douglas, Ramsey, Castletown and Peel. The tax gatherer and the rate collector are almost nnknown in the Isle of Man. There is neither income tax nor poor rate, and only in tl.e towns is there any local rate, and that but a small one.— Chamber s* Journal. Bella. The history of Wlls is one of the most interesting in the record of inven tions. They were first heard of about the year 4eing attached to the shaft by a belt, was kept constantly in motion. By mime accident the unfortunate man slipped while n< ar it, and his foot Wing caught in tho rotating flange was drawn down the shaft in which it works until tho knee joint was level with the floor. Knowing that unless something was sjieedily done his whole body would be ground to pieces in this new sausage machine, he, with a presence of mind that was extraordinary, raised his body until it reached the belt which turned the flange, and by sheer strength of muscle held the machinery still, thus putting his strength against the strength of a twenty-horse engine. In this con dition, with his crushed and mangled limb still in the machine, he held out against the engine for three-quarters of au hour, when he was rescued by other workmen, who had come to see what was the matter with the machinery. He was taken to the Sisters' hospital, and l>r. liigger says be will ultimately j recover the use of the injured memWr, Trtiesdale is about six feet high, and weighs only 170 pounds, but is a perfect giant in muscle. The forty-five min utes he spent in holding the machinery, he says, will always be a horrible re menibranee. A'UHAI* f ity (Mo.) Time*. \\ar Material in the Drain. The death of a soldier wlio had car ried a bullet in his brain for sixty-five years was reported recently. Tho wound was received at the battle of Waterloo. The bullet en ton si at the right eye. de stroying it, of course, ami traversing the brain, lodged in the back and lower part of the had. After the outer wound was closed he suffered no special inconve nience from the presence of the bullet, although always when turning himself in bed, he could f< • -1 that the I tall dropped into a different i>*ition. He was un usually healthy, and he died of old age. Another remarkable ease is cited. A young military officer was carelessly manipulating a musket, when the laurel burst iu his hand. The pieces fractured his skull so frightfully that fragments of the skull hail to be removed, and even a part of the begrimed brain substance was amputated, but the terrible wound soon ceased to trouble him, and he lived for several years. Dying at last of a fever, an examination of the brain was made, and it was discovered that almost the entire lock of the gun had been imbedded for year* in the base of the skull. It is said that no impairment whatever of the mental faculties had